# Group Sidebar Menus

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-sidebar-menus/394653
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-sidebar-menus/394653 "2026-01-29T13:40:01Z")
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### Author: ![NiceOldGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/niceoldguy/32/326207_2.png) [@NiceOldGuy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NiceOldGuy)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-sidebar-menus/394653/4 "2026-01-31T22:06:52Z")

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Fabulous! I’ve been wanting this for some time. I’ve built a nice collection of useful custom sidebar menus for myself–links for moderation, for admins tasks & reference, for Discourse documentation, for external content we frequently reference in the forum, etc. One menu has links for the various periodic meetings that simply uses the `tag` link, e.g. `/tag/comm-mgt-monthly` that helps me jump to current and previous agendas and minutes quickly.

I’ve many times wished for a way to export my custom sidebar menu configs so others on my team could import–this is a far superior configuration!

And icons! Yay! AFAIK the only way to do this [was to add custom CSS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-in-custom-section/378390/2). This new solution is elegant.

And sustainable! All admins will be able to edit the configuration files, so not reliant on me only. Thanks @Lilly and @Moin!

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